Michael Specter, who wrote a Profile of Galliano in 2003, wonders why anyone is surprised by this implosion: When I see people expressing shock and outrage at what he said, I have to contain a little bit of my own shock and outrage.
There have been shocks and surprises too, from the implosion and elimination of defending champions Spain to the fumbles and stumbles of hosts Brazil, who are still on course to get out of their group but are yet to catch fire.
The Pentagon's analysis, ordered by Congress last year, was no surprise, given Cuba's economic implosion after the end of Soviet-era subsidies.
Palace were chasing the league double over their London neighbours, having won at Stamford Bridge in August – the first real surprise result of the José Mourinho implosion – but they were breached here by Chelsea's slick football and they had no answers of their own.
Otherwise the general election could prove to be the second coronation in a row, after Hillary's implosion, that has ended with a surprise.
but arguably not surprising, nor any kind of disastrous implosion.
He worked for years as a newspaper columnist - and reportedly rather diligently, a fact remarked on with some surprise by friends who watched Donaldson's third financial implosion loom - he had ignored tax demands for years and had to declare bankruptcy.
OF ALL the banks to be caught up in the implosion of America's subprime market, none has caused more surprise than UBS.
So it was with no small amount of interest that I began to digest the headlines about the seemingly overnight implosion of Zirtual – a turn of events that clearly surprised and startled employees, customers, and investors.
The Fed's surprise quarter-point interest rate cut in October 1998, at the height of the crisis caused by the implosion of the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management, wasimilarlyly a case of providing money where it wasn't needed.
Nobody should be surprised, then, if those who have given the game its glossy veneer should ultimately prove the agents of its implosion.
